Free Friday: Pride Warm-Up at HAM
11:00 - 19:00
Come and party your way into a forest of huge textile sculptures and craft your own creations at art workshops! Friday’s warm-up is the perfect run-up to the culmination of Pride Week on Saturday.
Enjoy an Art Exhibition to Music
HAM and IDA Helsinki will be holding a party combining music, visual art, and spending time together. DJ sets will run throughout the day in one of the arched halls upstairs. Giant textile sculptures and music will meet in Magdalena Abakanowicz: Crossing Boundaries exhibition, featuring towering art all the way to the ceiling.
DJs Tomboy of Finland, DJ Suva, Joseysradios, Diiva.fm and Club Geeli will bring a unique atmosphere to the event. Surprising sounds, music from around the world, divas, and guaranteed dance music are all on the cards! The shows will also be streamed on live radio, so that the party can continue wherever you are.
Set Times:
Tomboy of Finland will get your booty moving with upbeat tunes by women and nonbinary artists. Inspired by their show No Man’s Land on IDA Radio, their selection ranges across the globe and prioritises fun and fresh sounds. Expect the unexpected!
DJ, vocalist and musician Suva brings a unique voice shaped by a lifelong relationship with music and decades on stage. Her sound is carved from the grit of jazz clubs, soul sessions and funky global grooves. At her DJ sets, Suva, who has been hosting the show The Garden for more than six years, combines a hypnotic house pressure cut through by live vocals.
Joseysradios is a DJ, artist, and curator, and the founder of What’s on Joseysradios? and Livingroom Session. With roots in Uganda and Congo, she draws rhythmic influences through an emotional, storytelling approach. Joseysradios merges African heritage with diverse influences for an immersive experience.
Diiva.fm is a radio show specializing in divas, hosted by the Vantaa-born drag dj Slaya Bit. From Sugababes to Lordi and from Spagna to Lykke Li, Slaya Bit handles the most current divas, diva tunes and diva gossip!
Club Geeli brings together the best of ‘90s and ‘00s dance music with bubbly pop remixes, dance anthems, house grooves and blissful trance, with a sprinkle of today’s pop phenomena. Your guides in the seductive power of euphoric nostalgia will be DJ Lassi Lassi and DJ duo CEX. Throw yourself into a sweet paradise, where fun and excitement can blossom!
Pride Art Workshops
Over the course of the day participants can enjoy four different art workshops. With Artist Emmi Valve participants will be making pride flags from recycled fabrics. RoskaART, also known as Talvikki Ulvelin, will be leading a workshop making pride pins, where participants can showcase their own identity, message or support – in a small gesture that still takes a stand. At artist couple Saara and Eve Lakso’s Thread, glitter and sequins! art workshop, participants will have the chance to make fabric pieces in rainbow colours. The pieces will come together using embroidery and a collage technique.
Furthermore, Textile Designer Rosa Tolnov Clausen will be leading a communal Weaving Club in HAM’s art workshop space. The inspiration for the large-scale loom came from Magdalena Abakanowicz’s art, and the collaborative piece will develop throughout the duration of the exhibition.
The materials for all the art workshops will be provided and no advance knowledge is required. Come as you are!
Workshop Times:
11:00–15:00 Rosa Tolnov Clausen: Weaving Club (Note! Time changed)
12:00–14:00 Emmi Valve: pride flags from recycled fabrics
14:00–16:00 RoskaART: pride pins
16:00–18:00 Saara Lakso and Eve Lakso: embroidery and fabric collage
Entry to the event is free of charge. The art workshops are also free of charge and no advance registration is required.
Helsinki Pride event calendar: Pride Pre-Party x HAM
IDA Helsinki operates as an online radio, event producer and diverse media platform with an emphasis on music and local DJ culture. It was first founded in Tallinn, Estonia on 1 May 2018 and the sister radio in Helsinki opened in 2020.
As a non-profit association, IDA Helsinki offers an alternative to commercial radio stations and online media. It is run by volunteers who are professionals in the music industry and active members of the local club scene.
The Pride Day shows are part of HAM’s Exhibitions to Music concept, where every other free entry day, the exhibition halls are filled with music. Free entry days take place on the last Friday of each month.
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